A letter in The Times ( London ), January 16, 1905, signed by Oswald Crawford, describes auction bridge as first played in 1904, while a book by " John Doe " ( F. Roe ), published in Alláhábád, India, in 1889, puts forward auction bridge as an invention of three members of the Indian Civil Service stationed at an isolated community, designed a three-handed form of bridge to compensate the lack of a fourth player.

* " For the Blood is the Life " ( 1911 ) by F. Marion Crawford.

Crawford Countians didn ’ t want the railroad passing through their county seat, so, the A & F laid the tracks to Musella instead.

A citizen who became famous in the " wild west " is " Captain Jack " Crawford, ( also known as the " Poet Scout ") western actor, scout for General George Crook's campaign in the Black Hills, native of Carndonagh, Ireland and performer with William F. Cody ( Buffalo Bill ), was postmaster and had a small general store in Girardville in 1869-1874, leaving town to go out west to find Gold.

In the 1970s, Smith opened his own supper club in Los Angeles, California, and played there regularly with guitarist Ray Crawford, Kenny Dixon on drums, Herman Riley and John F. Phillips on saxophone ; also included in the band was harmonica / flute player Stanley Behrens.

Dikty offered advice, and William L. Crawford of F. P. C. I.

Wells, Lord Louis Mountbatten, Fritz Kreisler, Tony Duquette, Amelia Earhart, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Joan Crawford, Noël Coward, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, Pearl S. Buck, Charles Lindbergh, Max Reinhardt, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Edison, Lillian Gish, Gloria Swanson, the Duke and Duchess of Alba, the King and Queen of Siam, Austen Chamberlain, Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko ,, and Sir Harry Lauder.

* Interpreting Old Ironsides: An Illustrated Guide to USS Constitution, by Charles E. Brodine Jr., Michael J. Crawford, and Christine F. Hughes.

* Crawford, Lewis F. History of North Dakota ( 3 vol 1931 ), excellent history in vol 1 ; biographies in vol.

George Meredith's The Shaving of Shagpat ( 1856 ), Khaled ( 1891 ) by F. Marion Crawford, and James Elroy Flecker's

American novelist F. Marion Crawford also produced a highly romanticized novel of Stradella's affair and flight from Venice, titled Stradella ( Macmillan 1909 ).

*" Business System with Punched card data processing and System / 3 Model 10 ", by F. R. Crawford, 1973, ISBN 0-13-107698-1

See the section " Bibliographical History " in An F. Marion Crawford Companion ( 1981 ) by John C. Moran.

The F. Marion Crawford Memorial Society was founded in 1975 and published the literary review The Romantist from 1977 until 1997.

The F. Marion Crawford Memorial Society collaborated in the organization of both Conferences.

The English text was not published until 1980, with introductory matter, by The F. Marion Crawford Memorial Society.

* Maud Howe Elliott ( 1934 ): My Cousin, F. Marion Crawford, The Macmillan Company

* John C. Moran ( 1981 ): An F. Marion Crawford Companion, Greenwood Press ( LC Catalog Num.

La Roma Sparita di F. Marion Crawford, Archivo Guido Izzi

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The Chino escape and Venceremos internal politics leading to its dissolution are the subject of a thinly veiled novel set in August to November 1972 by Max F Crawford titled The Bad Communist York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1979.

Entomologists who left a mark include William Stephen Atkinson ( 1820 – 1876 ), E. Brunetti ( 1862 – 1927 ), Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher ( 1878 – 1950 ), Sir George Hampson ( 1860 – 1936 ), H. E. Andrewes ( 1863 – 1950 ), G. M. Henry ( 1891 – 1983 ), Colonel C. T. Bingham ( 1848 – 1908 ), William Monad Crawford ( 1872 – 1941 ), W. H. Evans ( 1876 – 1956 ), Michael Lloyd Ferrar, F. C. Fraser ( 1880 – 1963 ), Harold Maxwell-Lefroy ( 1877 – 1925 ), Frederic Moore ( 1830 – 1907 ), Samarendra Maulik ( 1881 – 1950 ), Lionel de Nicéville ( 1852 – 1901 ), Ronald A. Senior-White ( 1891 – 1954 ), Edwin Felix Thomas Atkinson ( 1840 – 1890 ) and Charles Swinhoe ( 1836 – 1923 ).

: For the American author, F. Marion Crawford, see Francis Marion Crawford and for the fictional character, Marion Crawford ( EastEnders )

Although because of the important achievements of nineteenth century scholars in the field of textual criticism the advance is not so striking as it was in the case of archaeology and place-names, the editorial principles laid down by Stevenson in his great edition of Asser and in his Crawford Charters were a distinct improvement upon those of his predecessors and remain unimproved upon today.

Patrolmen J. W. Slate and A. L. Crawford Jr. said they arrested Ronald M. Thomas, of 1671 Nakoma St., NW, after he assaulted the officers.

Slate said he and Crawford received cuts and scratches and their uniforms were badly torn.

The 1939 film Beau Geste is the only movie that features as many as four Academy Award winners for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Susan Hayward, Broderick Crawford ) prior to any of the actors receiving the Best Actor Award.

* 1933 – Pat Crawford, Australian cricketer ( d. 2009 )

Joan died in Essex in 1238, and was buried at Tarant Crawford Abbey in Dorset.

* 1880 – Sam Crawford, American baseball player ( d. 1968 )

A 1938 US radio production starred Joan Crawford as Nora and Basil Rathbone as Torvald.

The Crawford rule, named after John R. Crawford, is designed to make match play more equitable for the player in the lead.

To balance the situation, the Crawford rule requires that when a player first reaches a score one point short of winning, neither player may use the doubling cube for the following game, called the Crawford game.

After the Crawford game, normal use of the doubling cube resumes.

The Crawford rule is routinely used in tournament match play.

It is possible for a Crawford game never to occur in a match.

If the Crawford rule is in effect, then another option is the Holland rule, which stipulates that after the Crawford game, a player cannot double until after at least two rolls have been played by each side.

At MGM he was one of the main directors of their female stars – he directed Joan Crawford six times and Greta Garbo seven.

From 1977-1978, Jones wrote and drew the syndicated comic strip Crawford ( also known as Crawford & Morgan ) for the Chicago Tribune-NY News Syndicate.

* 1845 – Ether anesthetic is used for childbirth for the first time by Dr. Crawford Williamson Long in Jefferson, Georgia.

Chief architect in the development of the 80386 was John H. Crawford.

His opponents included John C. Calhoun, William H. Crawford, Henry Clay, and the hero of New Orleans, Andrew Jackson.

Disorganization and failure to agree on William H. Crawford, Daniel Tompkins, Henry Clay or another possible contender weakened opposition to Monroe.

Though Jackson had won the popular vote, neither he nor any of the other candidates ( John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and William H. Crawford ) had won a majority of the electoral vote.

In the presidential election of 1824, Van Buren supported William H. Crawford and received the electoral vote of Georgia for vice-president, but he shrewdly kept out of the acrimonious controversy which followed the choice of John Quincy Adams as President.

Van Buren had originally hoped to block Adams ' victory by denying him the state of New York ( the state was divided between Van Buren supporters who would vote for William H. Crawford and Adams men ).

John H. Crawford, chief architect of the original 386, co-managed the design of the P5, along with Donald Alpert, who managed the architectural team.

Only once since then has the House of Representatives chosen the President: In 1824, Andrew Jackson received 99 electoral votes, John Quincy Adams ( son of John Adams ) 84, William H. Crawford 41 and Henry Clay 37.

Image: WilliamHCrawford. png | Secretary of War William H. Crawford of Georgia

However, Monroe faced stiff competition from Secretary of War William H. Crawford of Georgia.

Image: WilliamHCrawford. png | Secretary of the Treasury William H. Crawford of Georgia

Jefferson wrote in dismay at the outcome of the contingent election of 1825 to Congressional caucus nominee William H. Crawford, saying that he had hoped to congratulate Crawford but " events had not been what we had wished.

Political rivalry, namely, Calhoun's political ambitions as well as those of William H. Crawford, the Secretary of the Treasury, over the pursuit of the 1824 presidency also complicated Calhoun's tenure as War Secretary.

* William H. Crawford, Secretary of the Treasury in the administration of President James Monroe.

* December 12, 1935: New York City, New York, Victor Koussow, a Russian laboratory worker at the School of Dental and Oral Surgery, shot Prof. Arthur Taylor Rowe, Prof. Paul B. Wiberg, and wounded Dr. William H. Crawford at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, before committing suicide.

Along with Brown County, it is one of Wisconsin's original counties, established by the Michigan Territorial legislature in 1818, and named after William H. Crawford, James Monroe's Treasurer at the time.

The county was organized in 1829 and is named after U. S. Senator William H. Crawford of Georgia.

Some say it was named for William H. Crawford, who was U. S. Treasury Secretary in 1818.

It was named in honor of William H. Crawford, from Georgia, who was serving as Secretary of War and Secretary of the Treasury at the time.

William H. Crawford ( 1772 – 1834 )-U. S. Minister to France, U. S. Secretary of War, U. S. Secretary of the Treasury, nearly successful candidate for President of the United States

The county is named for statesman William H. Crawford who had served as a U. S. senator, minister to France, and secretary of the treasury.

Carmel Academy was run by the famous Southern educator, Moses Waddel ; it was here that John C. Calhoun and William H. Crawford were educated.

Some notable persons either born in or who resided in Columbia County include: Oliver Hardy ( comedian, born in Harlem ), Paul Hamilton Hayne ( poet and author ), Henry Louis Benning ( Confederate general for whom Fort Benning is named ), William Few, Abraham Baldwin, George Walton, George W. Crawford, William H. Crawford ( presidential candidate in 1824 ), Thomas Watson ( populist leader and Georgia senator born in Thomson when it was still in Columbia County ), George McDuffie ( South Carolina governor and senator in the early 19th century ), Jesse Mercer ( a long-time preacher in the county for whom Mercer University is named ).